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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1938.
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About thirty-six hundred years
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in what is now French Syria- All communications intended for but not the Hammurabi who rul- publication should be addressed to ed Babylonia five centuries ear- the Editor, and be accompanied by lier and composed the code of the Writer's Name and Address, laws that has dignified him not necessarily for insertion but the "Law-Giver gave a pièce as a guarantee of good faith.
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Hong Kong, Monday, January 17,
TWO NEW US. AMBASSADORS
of land to one of his nobles. A capable scribe took stylus in hand and recorded the transaction on a clay tablet; the document was properly witnessed, and the new landowner no doubt lugged the deed home and put it carefully
away.
Something later, about1 seven- teen hundred years, part of the tablet was used in building the wall of a temple to Atargatis, a Syrian goddess with the tail of a fish, and has more recently The United States is more and been found by archaeologists more coming to realise,
a excavating the site of ancient whole, that she cannot be a Dura and deciphered by Prof. hermit nation. Failure of the Ferris J. Stephens, curator of Brussels conference has again the Babylonian Collection at indicated the difficulties of poli-Yale, And so what happened with Europe, between King Hammurabi and tical co-operation
as
the
but at the same time progress his noble about B. C. 1700 turns toward a trade agreement with up as news in a morning paper Britain opens up new hope of of A. D. 1937. economic co-operation. Actual But why “news” rather than interests of America in the world a mere curious item about community must be cared for past? Because the discovery of And two recent announcements the tablet discovers the city as from Washington indicate there and flourishing much earl- that the State Department ier than had been believed. Some- intends that they shall be well thing is added to knowledge about and actively cared for.
what archaeology regards as a
a
the
The decisions to appoint Mr.“dark age" in the Euphrates Hugh R. Wilson to be Ambas- valley between the going out sador to Germany and Mr. Joseph of the Sumerian and Babylonian P. Kennedy to London to repre- civilisation. sent the United States at
It has been held that vanish- Court of St. James's mean thated Dura was founded by Alexan- America's diplomatic hand, is der the Great about 280 B. C. centuries being strengthened. In National and abandoned five
Then the sands covered Socialist Berlin, the retiring Am-later. bassador, Mr. Dodds, has been it. "From the newly found blunt exponent of rugged tablet," one reads at breakfast, middle-western
individualism."Professor Stephens links as a Berlin has never been entirely single place of great antiquity comfortable with him and from Damara, the Hana city mention- ed in the first line of the inscrip- his own statement it appears that he has not felt he could ac- tion; Dura, and Duweir, or Deir-
ez-Zor, the present-day complish much toward the ap-
Syrian village on the right bank of the peasement of tense times.
Such information Mr. Wilson, an Assistant Sec- Euphrates.” retary of State, takes to Berlin as has been acquired about the unusual qualities of understand "mysterious" kingdom of Hana ing and wide diplomatic experi-locates Hammurabi's capital at Tirqa. But Damara, later call- ence.. A quiet, able career man, long trusted to handle some of ed Dura, seems to have been a the State Department's most de-suburb some twelve miles distant. Alexander, it would appear, found places a distinguished historian Dura an already old city. and bold speech-maker. If the
licate relations in Europe, re-
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effort toward positive peacemak- Esprit de Corps ing through economic appease ment is to be pursued this is the The case of the Paris fireman way to do it.
who lately, in order to prove the And the shift in London from efficiency of his corps to a scep Mr. Bingham's graceful but tical friend, took the drastic, if necessarily rather inactive ser- practical, step of ringing a fire vice to Mr. Kennedy's dynamic alarm, is one that invites reflec- diplomacy should be a gain in tion. An n excess of esprit de the same direction. Ordinarily, corps is, of course, a condition the sending of an Irishman to often to be observed. The fireman cement good relations with the was obviously suffering not English would not be the height much from pride
as from the of international tact. But Mr. lack of a sense of values. In Kennedy has shown himself an that, too, he is typical of many. effective diplomat in his efforts Esprit de corps it but a lesser to improve relations between the form of patriotism, and “Patrio- Roosevelt Administration and tism," declared Edith Cavell, “is that other "foreign" power, Wall rot enough." Everywhere the Street. And London newspapers quality of loyalty is manifest to- have welcomed him as a more day in the conduct of men: active envoy and one known to every hand people are devoting have the closest confidence of their lives unselfishly to a flag, the President. From the Wash- an ideal, an institution, or: ington viewpoint, he is expect party. Yet too often they fail, ed apparently to be good like the Paris fireman, to dis- Yankee trader in bargaining for criminate between a lesser and the new trade
a greater loyalty, and losing. Together these appointments their sense of values, they are promise well for
re active apt to mistake the banner of the merican-diplomacy, particular clan for that of progress,
and to come espoused to a dogma the rather than wedded to reason.
ly in the field of economie peasement, which
holds
on